Exploring Pronoun Cases and Intensive Pronouns

This video tutorial covers pronoun cases and intensive pronouns, focusing on their importance in sixth-grade grammar. It emphasizes the need to watch the entire video before attempting practice exercises. The tutorial reviews subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns, explains antecedents and their agreement with pronouns, and introduces intensive pronouns. Practice exercises are included to reinforce learning.

What is a pronoun?

• A word that describes a noun

• A word that replaces a noun

• A word that connects clauses

• A word that modifies a verb

Which of the following is a subjective pronoun?

• Her

• Him

• They

• Whom

What must antecedents and pronouns agree in?

• Number, gender, and case

• Tense, mood, and voice

• Person, place, and thing

• Subject, object, and possessive

Which pronoun best completes the sentence: 'During early rehearsals, an actor may forget ___ lines'?

• He

• His

• Them

• Their

Which pronoun best completes the sentence: 'Nobody understood what ___ had to do to succeed in the course'?

• He or she

• Them

• It

• They

What is the antecedent in the sentence: 'When computers crash, they need to be fixed immediately'?

• Fixed

• Computers

• They

• Crash

What is an intensive pronoun?

• A pronoun that modifies a verb

• A pronoun that adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun

• A pronoun that replaces a noun

• A pronoun that connects clauses

Which of the following is an intensive pronoun?

• Himself

• They

• Whom

• Her

Which intensive pronoun best completes the sentence: 'We ___ need to be better prepared'?

• Yourself

• Themselves

• Ourselves

• Himself

Which intensive pronoun best completes the sentence: 'Did you make the cake ___'?

• Ourselves

• Himself

• Themselves

• Yourself